Rebecca Campbell

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Rebecca Campbell

Rebecca Campbell is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

First SKA dish assembled on site in the Karoo

26th July 2024 The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory (SKAO) has announced that the first telescope dish for its SKA-Mid array has been assembled on site, in the Karoo region in the Northern Cape province. The SKAO is the international organisation responsible for the SKA, which will be the world’s... →

ACSA seeking to grow its air cargo business at OR Tambo

26th July 2024 The State-owned Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is to step up its activities to stimulate air cargo traffic growth, particularly at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA). This will be achieved through various initiatives and infrastructure developments that will reduce... →

African airlines forecast to acquire 600 new smaller jetliners and turboprops by 2043

25th July 2024 Over the next 20 years, African airlines will acquire 380 new jet airliners in the small single-aisle (or small narrowbody) segment – that is, aircraft with fewer than 150 seats – and 220 new turboprop airliners. This is the forecast of Brazil-based global major aerospace group Embraer, in its... →

Photo by Airlink
An Embraer E190 of South African carrier Airlink

Satellite communications company launches new solution for African miners

25th July 2024 UK-based fully integrated satellite communications and connectivity services and solutions company Avanti Communications (Avanti) has launched, in Johannesburg, its new solution for the global mining industry, “Mines Always On”. Avanti possesses a constellation of four Ka-band communications... →

Photo by Avanti Communications
Artist’s impression of Avanti’s HYLAS 4 satellite in orbit

Rolls-Royce awarded grant by UK Space Agency to advance its space nuclear reactor project

24th July 2024 UK-based global major propulsion and power (including nuclear power) systems group Rolls-Royce has announced that it has been awarded £4.8-million by the UK Space Agency, to further develop and demonstrate core technologies in its space nuclear micro-reactor. The grant was made under the UK Space... →

Global major aerospace groups call for more research into aviation non-carbon emissions

24th July 2024 The Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) of global major aerospace groups Airbus, Boeing, Dassault Aviation, GE Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, RTX (formerly Raytheon), and Safran have issued a joint statement calling for governments to increase their funding for research into the climate impacts of... →

Siemens, BAE Systems to collaborate in digital innovation for manufacturing

23rd July 2024 US company Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), part of the Germany-based major multinational Siemens technology group, and the Air sector of the UK-based global major aerospace and defence group BAE Systems, have entered into a five-year partnership to collaborate in the acceleration... →

Airbus and partners launch fund to invest in sustainable aviation fuels, worldwide

23rd July 2024 Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus announced, at the Farnborough airshow on Tuesday, that it was, with airline, energy and financial partners, co-investing in a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) financing fund. The other partners in the fund were the Air France-KLM group, US-based... →

Embraer reports increased aircraft deliveries and order backlogs during the second quarter

19th July 2024 Brazil-based global major aerospace group Embraer has reported that, during the second quarter of this year, it delivered 170% more commercial jets (airliners) than it had done during the first quarter of the year. Second quarter 2024 (2Q24) deliveries of commercial jets totalled 19, as against... →

Cape Town’s Atlantis SEZ aiming to become green-industry heartland

19th July 2024 This month, July, will see the Greentech-focused Atlantis Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) mark two milestones, namely the breaking of ground for the first new factory to be built there, and the start of refurbishment of the site’s one pre-existing factory (which is owned by the ASEZ company). Civil... →

Cape Town’s Atlantis SEZ aiming to become green-industry heartland

19th July 2024 This month, July, will see the Greentech-focused Atlantis Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) mark two milestones, namely the breaking of ground for the first new factory to be built there, and the start of refurbishment of the site’s one pre-existing factory (which is owned by the ASEZ company). Civil... →

Necsa welcomes regulatory approval for extending the life of Koeberg’s first nuclear reactor

17th July 2024 The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) has welcomed the decision by the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) to authorise the extension of the operational life of the first reactor (known as Unit 1) at the Koeberg nuclear power plant (NPP) by 20 years. Such an extension in a reactor’s... →

Macpherson highlights the work of Infrastructure South Africa

17th July 2024 The work of Infrastructure South Africa (ISA) has been hailed by Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson. He was delivering the keynote address, on Tuesday, at the Infrastructure Africa 2024 Conference, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. ISA is an agency... →

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson

Zambian Minister stresses importance of infrastructure development and the role of PPPs

16th July 2024 Zambian Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Lubasi Milupi, himself an engineer, has highlighted the importance of infrastructure development for his country and for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). He was speaking at the Infrastructure Africa 2024... →

Public Works Minister determined to accelerate South African infrastructure development

16th July 2024 National Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson announced on Tuesday that he was establishing an Infrastructure Advisory Committee, in his office, to help drive forward infrastructure development in the country, which was urgently needed. He was delivering the keynote address at... →

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson

Airlink increases the number of its Durban-Harare flights

15th July 2024 South African regional and domestic airline Airlink announced on Monday that it would increase the frequency of its flights between South Africa’s main Indian Ocean coast city, Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal province, and the Zimbabwean capital city of Harare, to once every day. The new flights will... →

Photo by Airlink/J de Reuck
An Embraer ERJ140 of Airlink

Parliamentary Defence Committee concerned about underfunding of SANDF deployments

15th July 2024 The new Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans regards the proper funding of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) as a matter of the “utmost urgency”, it has stated. “The Committee remains deeply concerned that the deployment of the SANDF, specifically its... →

Nuclear industries association welcomes proposed new nuclear build programme

15th July 2024 The Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (Niasa) has “warmly” welcomed Energy and Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa‘s “significant” announcement that the country is close to launching a programme to build 2 500 MW of new nuclear power capacity in the country. New nuclear was... →

NRF environmental data node wins prestigious award

12th July 2024 The National Research Foundation (NRF), which is the agency responsible for supporting and promoting scientific and technological research in South Africa by means of funding, human skills development and the provision of research facilities, highlighted on Friday that the uLwazi Node of the... →

Aviation technology group SITA’s takeover of Materna IPS has been approved

12th July 2024 Global air transport industry technology solutions group SITA announced on Friday that it had completed all the legal procedures and regulatory formalities for its acquisition of Germany-based international automated passenger handling services provider, Materna IPS. This was a strategic... →

US company successfully executes regional-range test flight with hydrogen-electric air taxi

12th July 2024 US-based electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi company Joby Aviation announced on Thursday that its hydrogen-electric demonstrator air taxi had successfully completed a 523-mile (841.7-km) test flight. The only emission generated by the flight was water (in vapour form). The... →

Photo by Joby Aviation
The Joby hydrogen-electric flight demonstrator on its range-demonstration flight, trailing only water vapour

Defence industries association calls for greater investment in underfunded SANDF

12th July 2024 South African Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Industries Association (AMD) CEO Sandile Ndlovu has issued an open letter to the country’s next (and currently not yet known or appointed) Defence Minister, calling for urgent and significant investment in the country’s defence force. (Following the... →

Qatar Airways continues its expansion in Africa, with extra flights to Uganda

11th July 2024 Qatar’s national flag carrier, Qatar Airways, has announced a further expansion in its services to and from Africa. It will be adding three more flights a week to the route between its hub, Doha, and the Ugandan capital of Entebbe, to cope with northern summer demand. This will increase the... →

First SKA dish erected in the Karoo

10th July 2024 The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory (SKAO) has announced that the first telescope dish for its SKA-Mid array has been assembled on site, in the Karoo region in the Northern Cape province. The SKAO is the international organisation responsible for the SKA, which will be the world’s... →

Photo by SKAO
The SKA-Mid prototype dish, erected in China

Saps investigating the non-violent deaths of four SANDF soldiers at an Orkney mine shaft

8th July 2024 The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has announced that the South African Police Service (Saps) is undertaking an investigation, in preparation for an inquest, into the deaths of four SANDF members while on duty in the Orkney district of the North West province. The soldiers were part... →

ACSA seeking to grow its air cargo business at OR Tambo International Airport

8th July 2024 The State-owned Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is to step up its activities to stimulate air cargo traffic growth, particularly at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA). This will be achieved through various initiatives and infrastructure developments that will reduce... →

Industry body urges new government to reset South Africa’s maritime agenda

5th July 2024 South African non-profit advocacy company, the Maritime Business Chamber (MBC), has called on the incoming seventh administration of democratic South Africa to re-set the country’s maritime agenda. “South Africa is yet to fully operationalise efforts to promote South Africa’s maritime interest,”... →

Botswana to enter space with its first satellite, now being developed in joint project

4th July 2024 Southern African country Botswana is developing its first satellite, in a joint programme between the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) and Bulgarian space company EnduroSat. The satellite will be launched no earlier that February next year, on SpaceX’s... →

Photo by EnduroSaT
Impression of BOTSAT-1 in orbit

Global air cargo continued strong growth in May, with Africa seeing the greatest increase

3rd July 2024 Global air cargo demand in May continued to show strong year-on-year (y-o-y) growth, the world representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported. May was the sixth month in a row in which air cargo demand registered double-digit y-o-y... →

IATA urges South Africa to prioritise country’s aviation sector

2nd July 2024 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), on Tuesday called on the new South African Government to continue to prioritise aviation sector development in the country, as a key impetus for economic growth and job creation. (With no... →

Major restructuring in global aerospace sector confirmed – Boeing, Airbus, absorb Spirit

2nd July 2024 In one of the most important merger and acquisition deals in the global aerospace sector in years, US-based Boeing has announced that it is acquiring another large US group, aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems (Spirit), in an all-share deal valued at some $4.7-billion. Including the... →

Photo by Boeing
A Boeing 737 MAX 10

South African food inflation remained below CPI headline inflation in May

27th June 2024 In May, for the third month in a row, South African food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) inflation, hereafter to be referred to simply as food inflation, ran at a level below that of consumer price index (CPI) headline inflation, reported the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) in its... →

Boeing now sources nearly 40% of its electricity from renewable energy

26th June 2024 Last year, US-based global major aerospace group Boeing sourced 39% of its energy from renewable electricity sources. This was achieved through a combination of direct buys and renewable energy credits. This was one of the highlights revealed by Boeing’s just-released 2024 Sustainability & Social... →

Major international funding agencies strengthen cooperation to benefit small farmers

26th June 2024 The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) has signed a cooperation agreement with the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). This will expand the existing partnership between the two agencies and strengthen the joint... →

Airbus releases updated guidance for this year, signalling fewer deliveries and lower earnings

25th June 2024 Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus has released updated guidance for its expected performance for the rest of this year. Its previous guidance for the year had been issued in late April. The new guidance downscaled the group’s expected performance for this year, both in financial... →

New Oppenheimer research grant awarded to physicist, to develop medical technology

25th June 2024 The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust has announced that the first winner of its New Frontiers Research Award is University of Cape Town (UCT) physicist, Dr James Keaveney. The trust created the award to help reinvigorate research excellence in South Africa (in 2021/22 the country spent only 0.62% of... →

Photo by Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
Dr James Keaveney

Rolls-Royce to lead hydrogen-fuelled combustion engine development project in Germany

24th June 2024 Rolls-Royce Power Systems, the Germany-based business of UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce, has announced that it is leading a consortium of German companies and research institutes, in a three-year joint project to develop a highly-efficient hydrogen combustion... →

Defence industries association calls for greater investment in the underfunded SANDF

24th June 2024 South African Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Industries Association (AMD) CEO Sandile Ndlovu has issued an open letter to the country’s next (and currently not yet known or appointed) Defence Minister, calling for urgent and significant investment in the country’s defence force. (Following the... →

Milkor highlights its partnership with German group regarding sea surveillance UAV

24th June 2024 South African defence company Milkor on Thursday reaffirmed its partnership with German group Aerodata, to develop a maritime surveillance version of the Milkor 380 uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV). This partnership was first announced at the ILA Berlin Air Show 2024, last week. The Milkor 380 is a... →

Electric aviation company chooses Siemens software for its design processes

21st June 2024 Australian sustainable aviation company Dovetail Electric Aviation (Dovetail) has selected Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Xcelerator software portfolio to employ in the design of its zero-emission aircraft propulsion systems, both battery electric and hydrogen-electric. Dovetail’s... →

Airbus has identified unserved air routes to, from and within Africa

20th June 2024 On Thursday, at the AviaDev Conference in Windhoek, Namibia, Airbus released its latest report on commercial aviation in Africa. The 53-page report is titled Exploring the horizons: A study of unserved air routes to, from and within Africa. “Despite significant traffic between certain city-pairs,... →

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